Show NEWS REVIEW Showdown Near Neat in iX U UN e N Grain Exports s Reduced SHOWDOWN Russia's Choice Secretary of State George Mar Mar- Marshall Marsh Marshall shall sh ll sounded like a man who was getting a lot of things off his chest What he said in an address before the th U. U N N. general assembly of 55 nations amounted to a call for a showdown with Russia The Soviets he intimated have held to their stubborn veto-bound veto course in the United Nations long enough To make the delinquents come to time Marshall proposed a four point plan of action to the general assembly He suggested creation of a new 1 assembly committee of 55 coun coun- countries countries countries tries which would operate without veto and would remain constantly in session to consider world security questions and function as a board of appeals Potentially the committee would be a rival to the security council 2 He announced that the U. U S. S was G ready to relinquish in all but the gravest cases its veto privilege and implicitly challenged Russia to do likewise He blamed Russia for the U. U S.- S. 3 Soviet deadlock in Korea and said that America would submit the case to the general assembly for action 4 He blamed Russia for using f 4 vetoes to protect Yugoslavia I Albania and Bulgaria from fromI being pronounced guilty guilty- of meddling in Greece He said the U. U S. S would ask the assembly to vote guilt for the three satellites and to demand that they refrain from interfering in Greece PRICE BATTLE UA Exports Cut Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. P Anderson Ander on had a Horatio at the bridge air about him as he an an- announced announced announced that the government had made a drastic cut-back cut of grain and flour allocations for export in No No- vember The move generally was accounted account account- ed as another noble stand against the forces which are causing domes domes- domestic tic food prices to spiral spir l dizzily This one one however had the blessings of the grain trade as a step in the right direction Reducing the export allocations for November was in line with the governments government's surprise revision of the nations nation's 1947 export goal from some million bushels of grain down to million In a significant sidelight An An- Anderson Anderson Anderson derson scoffed at the prospect of returning to rationing by pointing out that such a pro pro- program program program gram could not be put into ef ef- effect effect effect before the need for it would be over Next move it was hinted would be an attempt by Secretary Ander Ander- Anderson son to put through a sharp reduction of total food exports not exports not just grain as as the only practical way of pull pull- pulling pulling ing down prices The U. 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S state department however how how- however howver ever ver ever committed to its save Eu Eu- Europe Europe Europe rope program no doubt would ob ob- object object ob- ob object vehemently to any such action I L Atom Effects Alter I Although the atom bomb explosions explosions in Japan have caused some sterility among the people they have not affected the soil adversely and may even have brought about an improvement in the rice crop Dr Shields Warren Harvard pro pro- professor professor fessor recently returned from Ja Japan J Ja- Ja Japan a- a apan pan where he studied effects after-effects of the bomb said that its effects on human beings may carry into the third generation producing freaks WHOSE FAULT Taft Talks Sen Robert Taft Rep Ohio who had to crash a toting sign pick pick- picket et line to get to his audience told tolda a Republican rally s in Los Angeles S 'S that if President ga Truman had not n jumped the gun in scrapping price controls the current inflation spiral might have been delayed a while longer Exactly how Taft arrived at that j rather hazy conclusion Taft sion was not imme imme- immediately immediately immediately clear The senator himself last year was de de- denounced denounced de- de denounced by Mr Truman for his part partin in writing a price control extension bill which the President branded as being worse than no controls Mr Truman's subsequent veto of the bill allowed price controls to expire automatically Nailing down the first plank in what apparently is designed to be his campaign platform for the 1948 presidential nomination Taft as as- assailed assailed assailed sailed the administrations administration's record on taxes and spending The country must elect a Republican Republican Republican lican president next year if it is gen gen- genuinely genuinely genuinely interested l in reducing taxes es and spending Taft observed SPEED UP SPEED UP Forrestal In James V. V Forrestal wasn't due to tobe tobe tobe be sworn in as U. U S. S secretary of ol defense for for another r week but President President President dent Truman mani mani- manifestly manifestly alarmed over the trend of world events ordered the former secretary of i the navy to jump the in 1 gun taking ex over his new job Mr Truman ob observed f served that th t in view of conditions can c o n d di t ion i o n s Forrestal abroad the nation should have its secretary of defense in office and functioning The conditions which he did not specify probably were the current unrest in Trieste and the U. U S.-Russian S. stalemate in the United Nations topped off oft by Sec Sec- Secretary Secretary Secretary of State Marshalls Marshall's challenging ing speech before the general as as- Now presiding over the unified army navy and air Sir forces Forres Forres- Forrestal tal is the armed forces' forces only representative representative representative on the th Presidents President's cabinet |